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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
You are pretty quick to throw the, "You've been lied to." in there.
Would you care to substantiate your claim that scientists "routinely take multiply test samples and throw out those that are wild"? That sort of thing wouldn't pass peer review, so I'm curious about this happening "routinely".
And substantiation from a website that states "Upholding the authority of the bible from the very first verse" can hardly be considered unbiased.
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I wish i could but, alas, I can not simply discard data because it doesn't look nice. Poor scientists do but not the good ones which makeup the large majority of the scientific world.
With a sufficiently large data set and rigorous statistical evaluation you may be able to discount or minimize some outliers but it's not like you can simply discard data you don't like or doesn't prove your point. In fact, the way science was taught to me was to pose what I thought was the solution or explanation and find any way possible to disprove it and invite others to do the same, in that way you build up evidence for your mechanism or model.